General Lemmings

[Andi]

I thought it's something like that.

[Ice_Eagle91]

I think Lemmings have green hair because it's their style.

Why do Lemmings wear blue suits?

[Andi]

Lemmings had green hair because the PC's EGA palette had the first 3 colours of white/blue/green.

Lemmings were only 4 colours (2 bitplanes) so the choice was blue hair/green trousers or green hair/blue trousers.

Boring he!

 :-/

[DragonsLover]

Why Lemmings and not another rodent?

[LemSteven]

Why Lemmings and not another rodent?

The real lemmings are notorious for running off cliffs and committing suicide (Although I do not believe they do so intentionally).  The green-haired Lemmings in the computer game do the same thing.  Psygnosis probably had this in mind when they designed the game.

[Ice_Eagle91]

Are you ignoring me? I'm asking this question again:

Why do lemmings wear blue suits?

[namida]

Because four times six equals seventy-two.

[Andi]

Are you ignoring me? I'm asking this question again:

Why do lemmings wear blue suits?

Mike said it! Do you have problems with reading? It's because of the limitations to the EGA palette. They had no other choice.

[Andi]

I just found this nice website: http://www.smbhq.com/users/snss/Comics/Comix.htm

Check "The Adventures of Lemmy the Lemming" out.

[DragonsLover]

Look at that (image taken from the website):

RayLem


The site is really cool!

[Juhaz]

Lemmings had green hair because the PC's EGA palette had the first 3 colours of white/blue/green.

Lemmings were only 4 colours (2 bitplanes) so the choice was blue hair/green trousers or green hair/blue trousers.

Boring he!

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

After all, Lemmings was not born as a PC game, it was originally written for Amiga, with vastly superior graphics capabilities compared to the first primitive PC's.

And Lemmings had the same color scheme there, so technical reasons based on EGA limits imposed much later don't make much sense.

[G3K]

Mike actually worked on Lemmings, so I'd be inclined to believe him - he's probably talking specifically about the PC version.

[Mike]

Actually, the first prototype was done on the PC by Russell Kay about a year before the Amiga one even started.

Both games were developed side by side (along with the ST one), and since the Amiga and ST versions had total control over palettes, we were forced to use the PC as the limiting factor.

And yes..... I do know what Im talking about

[Andi]

Mike, I wanted to ask you something:

In some old magazines you see very often Lemmings-Illustrations. Are they still somehow available as Cliparts or so?

Ah, and if there weren't limitations on the palette, what colour would the lemmings have?

[Mike]

Do you mean the concept art? There are scans available of them around... just have a search..

Search for "lemmings concept" and use images on google, they'll come up there.

If you look at my first animation.... it was blue hair, and red jump suit... no idea why... I think that was part of t
the default palette of DPaint. I guess it would have been close to that, otherwise, Ive no idea.